Stardust Grail

313 pages

English language

Published 2024 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-87538-9

(2 reviews)

Save one world. Doom her own.

From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.

Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.

Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.

Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a …

Save one world. Doom her own.

From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization.

Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.

Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.

Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.

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Alex Keane reviewed The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

Super Fun, Tense Sci Fi Heist

4 stars

I really enjoyed Stardust Grail.

Maya is a grad student who used to work as an interstellar art thief. She gets called back to throw stars for one last job trying to track down an important artifact for her alien friend, Uncle. Along the way she makes new friends and discovers devastating truths about the universe she thought she knew everything about.

I really enjoyed the characters in this one and their interactions. They felt like the sort of chat you have with someone you work with. I also really liked the variety and diversity of the alien species portrayed in the book.

There's one section of the heist near the end of the book that felt a bit rushed and was a little harder to keep up with what was happening, though that might just have been an issue between me and the audio book.

Overall I really liked …

I really enjoyed Stardust Grail.

Maya is a grad student who used to work as an interstellar art thief. She gets called back to throw stars for one last job trying to track down an important artifact for her alien friend, Uncle. Along the way she makes new friends and discovers devastating truths about the universe she thought she knew everything about.

I really enjoyed the characters in this one and their interactions. They felt like the sort of chat you have with someone you work with. I also really liked the variety and diversity of the alien species portrayed in the book.

There's one section of the heist near the end of the book that felt a bit rushed and was a little harder to keep up with what was happening, though that might just have been an issue between me and the audio book.

Overall I really liked it, it was a fun read and one I'd be glad to recommend to friends.

ghosttie

rated it

Dec 22

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